Review your assessment tools
To ensure that your assessment resources and tools are consistent with the requirements of the training qualification and that they are current, sufficient and effective, it is important that they are reviewed by fellow trainers/assessors and if possible trialled before you use them with learners.
Why Review your tools?
Working with others often sheds fresh light that leads to improvements. Inviting feedback from your peers, learners, master crafts people and industry will confirm that the tools are fit for purpose, enable effective collection of quality evidence and that the level of difficulty is appropriate to the qualification level.
The review of the assessment tools can be done in different ways. You can share the tools with fellow trainers/assessors and ask for their feedback. You can also seek industry validation by inviting master crafts people and employers to review and provide feedback.
In some instances, there can be differences of opinion. Keep an open mind and look at them as an opportunity to discuss and resolve any ambiguities or misunderstandings and refine the tools before they are used with learners.
Here is an example of an assessment review checklist / form, which you can use or develop your on based on it.
Now that you have your draft assessments why not get some feedback from your colleagues at work but also the other course participants?
Pick one of the assessments you have drafted, possibly a practical one, and post it in the course CTVSD2 forum.
If you have not used the assessment instructions template make sure you identify which competencies or PC are being assessed in the assessment document you post. We also recommend that you review what others have posted and provide feedback to at least one peer on their work using the assessment review checklist.
Trial your tools
Once you have reviewed and possibly further refined your assessment tools based on feedback from colleagues and fellow learners, if possible, trial your tools before they are used formally with learners. That will help you find out weather:
- the format is user‑friendly,
- the language is appropriate for the literacy and numeracy levels of the learners,
- the instructions are clear,
- the criteria and judgment statements in the assessment rubrics are clear and not open to interpretation,
- the format for recording assessment evidence and judgements is practical,
- the times allowed for assessment tasks are suitable, and
- the tool’s overall cost‑effectiveness.
During the trial evaluate the tool’s degree of adaptability. This will be determined by the tool’s capacity to be adjusted to different contexts and learners’ needs, while still meeting the principles of assessment. This provides you with another opportunity to refine the tools you have developed and ensure they will effectively meet learners and assessors/trainers needs.
Review your assessment tools
To ensure that your assessment resources and tools are consistent with the requirements of the training qualification and that they are current, sufficient and effective, it is important that they are reviewed by fellow trainers/assessors and if possible trialled before you use them with learners.
Why Review your tools?
Working with others often sheds fresh light that leads to improvements. Inviting feedback from your peers, learners, master crafts people and industry will confirm that the tools are fit for purpose, enable effective collection of quality evidence and that the level of difficulty is appropriate to the qualification level.
The review of the assessment tools can be done in different ways. You can share the tools with fellow trainers/assessors and ask for their feedback. You can also seek industry validation by inviting master crafts people and employers to review and provide feedback.
In some instances, there can be differences of opinion. Keep an open mind and look at them as an opportunity to discuss and resolve any ambiguities or misunderstandings and refine the tools before they are used with learners.
Here is an example of an assessment review checklist / form, which you can use or develop your on based on it.
Discussion
Now that you have your draft assessments why not get some feedback from your colleagues at work but also the other course participants?
Pick one of the assessments you have drafted, possibly a practical one, and post it in the course CTVSD2 forum.
If you have not used the assessment instructions template make sure you identify which competencies or PC are being assessed in the assessment document you post. We also recommend that you review what others have posted and provide feedback to at least one peer on their work using the assessment review checklist.
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Trial your tools
Once you have reviewed and possibly further refined your assessment tools based on feedback from colleagues and fellow learners, if possible, trial your tools before they are used formally with learners. That will help you find out weather:
During the trial evaluate the tool’s degree of adaptability. This will be determined by the tool’s capacity to be adjusted to different contexts and learners’ needs, while still meeting the principles of assessment. This provides you with another opportunity to refine the tools you have developed and ensure they will effectively meet learners and assessors/trainers needs.
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